Senior KYC SME supporting Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) activities within an Asset Management environment, with a focus on KYC refresh work and providing advisory input across governance, controls, and operating model effectiveness.
The role will support complex financial structures including asset management products, leveraged finance, lending, and property-related exposures, ensuring consistent application of KYC/AML standards and regulatory expectations.
The SME will act as a senior point of expertise supporting both eClerx delivery teams and end client FCC/KYC stakeholders, providing judgement on complex cases, supporting quality and consistency of KYC outputs, and contributing to the effectiveness of KYC frameworks and control environment.
Strong Asset Management KYC experience (essential) – not retail banking KYC
Proven experience in KYC remediation / refresh programmes
Deep FCC knowledge (AML, KYC, CDD, EDD, risk scoring)
Exposure to complex structures (funds, SPVs, institutional clients)
Experience across:
· Asset management clients / investment management firms
· Lending / leveraged finance structures
· Property / real estate finance exposure
· Advisory or governance frameworks
Ability to support KYC policy interpretation and controls design
Key responsibilities:
Act as KYC SME across Asset Management remediation workstreams
Review and validate KYC refresh cases for complex institutional / fund structures
Provide advisory input on FCC controls, governance, and KYC standards
Support design and refinement of KYC policies and operating model improvements
Work closely with eClerx delivery teams to ensure consistent QA and remediation output
Interface with client stakeholders to resolve complex cases and provide SME judgement
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required:
Extensive KYC / CDD / EDD experience within Asset Management
Strong FCC / AML regulatory understanding (UK FCA environment)
Proven experience in remediation, refresh or transformation programmes
Exposure to complex financial products (fund structures, lending, leverage finance, property finance)
Senior SME / governance-level advisory capability (not operational-only analyst skillset)